Their version of Get Lucky and Freak Out, aided by Stevie Wonder and Nile Rogers, sounds just a little bit stilted, but it might have something to do with this particular recording.
Even with a knee injury that curtailed his 2013 season and a frustrating series of ailments that stilted progress this year, the 26-year-old returned to the world stage with a win that never seemed in doubt.
And weaker identification with parties can be a plus: some of the worst-governed bits of Britain have suffered badly from a tribal instinct among voters that has stilted political competition and led a single party to think it had a monopoly on power.When voters really need them, parties can be reinvigorated.
At times the sepulchral pacing and stilted interactions verge on the genteel.
Attempts to understand or imagine her inner life tend to be a bit stilted, perhaps because the author is a historian, not a novelist.
At the level of political theatre, debates in the European Parliament may be boring and stilted, thanks to the need for simultaneous interpretation.
The dialogue is stilted, terse and bare, like the syncopated sparks of sharpening knives.
Having proved his point, Dr Wittlinger returned both stumped and stilted ants to the nest and gave them a few days to recover.
And, indeed, the event a series of speeches from the leaders before they ate the iftar together, breaking the daily fast of Ramadan at sundown had a staged and stilted air about it.Still, it was the old Mr Obama (or his old speechwriter) who wove into his remarks a moving reference to this being both the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims and the pre-Rosh Hashana month of Elul for the Jews.
Mr Harper issued a curiously stilted statement about the long history of the maple leaf as a national symbol and the award of flags to 50 Canadian individuals and groups for contributions to their country.
Although he looked stilted while delivering his pre-prepared responses, he avoided gaffes that the hostile media could hold against him.
